Potato-digger



(No Model.)

E. 3. JAMES.

E x v P TATO IGSEE; 30%139- S Patented July 15, 1884.

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U ITED STATES PATENT Orrice- REUBEN R. JAMES, on RISING .sUN, INDIANA.

POTATO- DIGGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,139, dated July 15, 1884.

Application filed February 28, i884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

- Be it known that I, REUBEN n. JAMES, of

Rising Sun, in the county of Ohio'and State of Indiana, have invented a. new and useful Improvement in Potato-Diggers, of which the Fig. 2 isa partial side elevation of the same,

showing the opposite side of the plow from that shown in Fig. 1, and showing the blade L in normal position.

A indicates the plow beam and stock,formed in one piece, having the lands'idebar B and handles 0. The bar B has a steel point, D, welded thereto, and a heel-bar, E, secured to its rear end and extending upward and outward therefrom, for breaking the soil on the land side.

Fis the share, bolted to the .landside-bar a short distance above the bottom of said bar, to give it a bearing in the-soil to keep the plow from jumping sidewise from the pressure on the share.

Inthe place of the usual mo1d-board of a plow, curved bars or fingers G are secured to the share and stock at a suitable distance apart to allow the soil and potatoes to pass between them, affordingsufticient resistance to the passage of the potatoes to rake them out to the surface of the ground, and at the same time turning weeds, vines, &c., out of the way. To the rear end of the share is attached by a short chain a drag, H, having four branching prongs for raking the soil and laying bare any potatoes that may be covered thereby.

J is a brace-bar extending from the stock to the heel of the landside bar, and K K are 5 braces extending from the stock to the handles 0. On the landside of the plow is a vertical blade or wing, L, which is secured to a crankrod, N, loosely. supported in the share at the bottom, and in a bearing, 0, attached to one .50

ing away or/throwing aside weeds,vines, &c.,

By turning the that may catch on the stock. crank-rod the blade is thrown to the position shown in Fig. 1,by which movement any weeds adhering to the stock will be turned aside.

I do not broadly claim curved bars or fin- 6o gers arranged in the position of a mold-board,

such construction being common in potatodiggers and other plows.

What I claim is 1. Thecombination, with the plow-stock and the landside-bar, of the share arranged with its lower edge above the lower edge of said bar, in order that said bar may serve as a guide for keeping the share in the ground, the

curved bars or fingers G, arranged in the position of a 1nold-board, the bar E, secured to thelandside-bar, and the drag H, attached to the rear end of the share, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the plow-stock,of l

REUBEN R. JAMES.

YVitnesses:

J OHN W. MILLER, GRANT HEMPHILL. 

